Theme: How can a person’s life story have an impact on those around him or her?
Essential Questions:
Why do some people seem “larger than life”?
Why are people curious about the lives of others?
What are the four kinds of life stories?
Focus Standards:
6.RI.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
6.RI.3 Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
6.RI.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
6.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Ongoing Standards:
6.SL.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
6.SL.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
6.L.1e Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others’ writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.
6.L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
6.L.3a Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.
6.L.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
6.L.4a Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position of function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
6.L.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
6.L.4d Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
6.L.5b Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
6.L.5c Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).
6.L.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
6.RI.9 Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Objectives: The Learner Will
TLW analyze the author’s purpose for writing (to inform, to describe, to entertain, to persuade, to reveal a truth about life, or to share an experience).
TLW determine the purpose and characteristics of a journal.
TLW will distinguish between a personal narrative and an autobiography.
Assessment Product
Students will complete their survival lists, maps, and annotated reading logs for Bud, Not Buddy.
Students will produce journal entries for the major events in Bud’s life to use as a study guide.
Students will create “author’s purpose” charts for “Matthew Henson at the Top of the World,” “Over the Top of the World,” and “Up and Over the Top” (see HMU7, page 822).
Students will keep personal journals for the remainder of the unit.
Key Questions
What is the purpose of keeping a personal journal?
What is the difference between a personal narrative and an autobiography?
How do I determine the author’s purpose for writing?
Observable Student Behaviors
Students will use standard norms to participate in class discussions and in small-group discussions.
Students will complete written assignments and activities.
Vocabulary
Author’s purpose Autobiography Journal Personal narrative
Suggested Activities
Finish reading Bud, Not Buddy.
Bud calls his survival list “Rules and Things to Have a Funner Life and Make a Better Liar Out of You.” Have students complete their own lists.
Finish tracing the action of this book from beginning to end, annotating along the way.
Complete the annotated reading logs.
Create journal entries for the major events in Bud’s life.
Read fromOver the Top of the World (HMU7, pages 823-826) and “Up and Over the Top” (HMU7, pages 827-830).
Students will complete “author’s purpose” charts for “Matthew Henson at the Top of the World,” “Over the Top of the World,” and “Up and Over the Top” (see HMU7, page 822).
Homework Students will work on assigned readings and reading logs. Terminology for Teachers
Lesson Plan in Word Format (Click Cancel if asked to log in)
Resources Professional Texts
Informational Texts
Adler, Bill. The Cosby Wit. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1986.
This is an interview with the Christopher Paul Curtis. The interview provides the teacher with background information about the author. The interview also mentions his new book.
This is a website for teachers to access information about Bud, Not Buddy and links to other websites. The teacher can also find teaching ideas, related titles, reviews of the book, and information about the author.
Map skills: Find Flint and Grand Rapids, Michigan on a map Discuss the forms of communications during the depression
Math:
Calculate the distances between the two areas using an Atlas of Standard Highway Mileage Guide; Calculate the distance between Georgia and Flint, Michigan
Music:
The impact/significance of Jazz music during the Great Depression
Grade 6 Unit: 3 Week: 4 Content: ELA Dates: 12/3-12/7
Theme: How can a person’s life story have an impact on those around him or her?
Essential Questions:
Focus Standards:
Ongoing Standards:
Objectives: The Learner Will
Assessment
Product
Key Questions
Observable Student Behaviors
Autobiography
Journal
Personal narrative
Homework
Students will work on assigned readings and reading logs.
Terminology for Teachers
Lesson Plan in Word Format (Click Cancel if asked to log in)
Resources
Professional Texts
Informational Texts
Art, Music, Media
Games
Videos
www.discoveryeducation.com
Sight Words
SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons
www.thinkcentral.com
http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/longsmart3.html
Other Activities
Integration Ideas:
Language Arts/Social Studies:
- The Great Depression Economics: Compare prices now and then
- Notorious figures: Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson The job market
- Family: Homelessness, extended family, foster care, adoption Discuss Labor Unions/Laws
- http://www.42explore2.com/depresn.htm
- Map skills: Find Flint and Grand Rapids, Michigan on a map Discuss the forms of communications during the depression
Math:- Calculate the distances between the two areas using an Atlas of Standard Highway Mileage Guide; Calculate the distance between Georgia and Flint, Michigan
Music:- The impact/significance of Jazz music during the Great Depression
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/history_of_jazz.htm
- http://pbskids.org/jazz/time/1930.html
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/history/history-3.htm
Art:Design a new flier introducing Bud into Callaway’s band.
https://www.4secondarysolutions.com/v/vspfiles/downloadables/Bud%20Not%20Buddy%20Sample%20Pages.pdf
http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-bud.html
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1170
Tons of links to historical and literary sites.
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/free-reading-worksheets/authors-purpose-worksheets/
http://www.polk-fl.net/staff/teachers/reading/documents/SeptemberFOCUSCalendarMiddleSchool.pdf
http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/subjects/languagearts/advancedreading/authorspurpose/authorspurpose1.pdf
http://bcpshelpdeskmiddleschoolenglish.weebly.com/6th-grade-lessons.html
http://www.austinschools.org/curriculum/la/ms/6th/documents/LA_6th_UpandOvertheTop_Documents.pdf
http://teacherweb.com/TX/HernandezMiddleSchool/Carter/Over-the-Top-of-the-World.pdf
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